Multiple individuals have been shot lifeless and injured in a capturing at a college in Prague as we speak.
Police within the Czech Republic’s capital urged residents to shelter inside and keep away from the world ‘resulting from an ongoing capturing incident’ near Charles University within the centre of the town.
‘Based on preliminary info we are able to affirm there are lifeless and injured individuals on the web site,’ police mentioned on social media platform X, previously Twitter.
Dramatic video exhibits terrified crowds of vacationers and locals sprinting throughout the well-known Charles Bridge – one among Europe’s high vacationer websites – after they heard the sickening sound of gunshots within the metropolis.
In separate footage, individuals had been seen operating with their fingers raised within the air from the University’s Faculty of Arts constructing within the capital, as armed cops stood by.
A college member of the college, Zora Hesova, mentioned individuals had been nonetheless locked in lecture rooms contained in the constructing as armed cops descended on the scene.
People could be seen operating from a constructing in Prague
Images circulating on-line and in Czech media purports to indicate the shooter on the roof of the college constructing
Police within the Czech Republic’s capital urged residents to shelter and keep away from the world ‘resulting from an ongoing capturing incident’ near Charles University within the centre of the town
‘As a results of the capturing, we dispatched a number of rescue crews to the scene. This is a bigger variety of injured,’ the spokeswoman for the Rescue Service, head Prague Jana Poštová, mentioned.
‘The precise quantity just isn’t but identified. However, it was essential to announce a trauma plan.’ The police later mentioned that there have been lifeless and injured individuals on the scene.
The British Embassy in Prague has urged individuals within the metropolis, a hotspot for vacationers, to keep away from the across the Charles University and the Faculty of Arts.
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